Influence is not government.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.